A contributing editor for the Washingtonian and former digital editor for The New Republic opined on Twitter that Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio and his wife Jeanette’s traffic violations demonstrate a “callousness” towards “human life.”
POLITICO’s Dylan Byers got the conversation started with the sensible observation that reporting on the fact that a candidate got four tickets over two decades was pretty lame. (RELATED: Surprise! NYT’s Embarrassing Rubio Hit Piece Came From Democratic Super PAC)
1. Times’ Rubio story is a fair story insofar as everything is on the table these days, but: the candidate had 4 traffic tix? so what?
— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) June 5, 2015
But Hillary Kelly knew better.
@DylanByers It does suggest a certain callousness about human life, to repeatedly speed.
— Hillary Kelly (@HillaryKelly) June 5, 2015
Conservatives on Twitter were less than amused with her take, with many noting that Kelly’s observation comes a month after Hillary Clinton’s campaign van led reporters on a 95 mph chase across the state of New Hampshire.
MT @HillaryKelly: @DylanByers It does suggest a certain callousness about human life, to repeatedly speed. pic.twitter.com/n7O9CtPUVd
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) June 5, 2015
Oh yes, this is what sane people take away from the story https://t.co/xO5He5Q1hQ
— F. Bill McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) June 5, 2015
This woman thinks speeding represents a disregard for human life. https://t.co/BLFi1AyJhs
— F. Bill McMorris (@FBillMcMorris) June 5, 2015
Sheesh. RT @FBillMcMorris: Oh yes, this is what sane people take away from the story https://t.co/5lpAjyISwY
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) June 5, 2015
Nailed it. Or something. Is this for real? https://t.co/Vnu4IVqlle
— Heather (@hboulware) June 5, 2015
So does support for late term abortion “@HillaryKelly: It does suggest a certain callousness about human life, to repeatedly speed.”
— Harold Stickeehands (@StickeeNotes) June 5, 2015